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[[File:WheresWaldo_6691.jpg|frame|It's never this easy.]]
{{quote|''"...oh, there he is."''|Last line from the cartoon show's [[Theme Song]].}}
'''''Where's Wally?''''' (titled ''Where's Waldo?'' when exported to North America) is a series of picture books where each page is a complex scene filled with hundreds of tiny people. The goal is to find Wally/Waldo, a man in glasses, a bobble hat and a red-and-white striped shirt, carrying a cane. Each page has a short flavor text where Waldo describes his adventures, pointing the reader to other, usually humorous, things to look for.
Has become a catchphrase for finding various things; see [[Where Is Deado?|Where's Deado?]], for instance.
* ''Where's Wally/Waldo?''
* ''Where's Wally Now?'' (retitled ''Find Waldo Now'' in North America) (featuring various historical scenes)
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Spawned a short-lived Saturday Morning cartoon show which justified its connection to the books by having a "find Waldo" puzzle before each act break. These were often much harder than the ones in the books, not because they were particularly complex, but because the low resolution on TV's at the time made finding small details (like Waldo) a trying task.
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* [[Adaptation Expansion]]: the animated series. Among other things, it gave Odlaw a reason to antagonize Waldo (he wanted to steal his [[MacGuffin|magical cane]]).
* [[A Pirate 400 Years Too Late]]: A crew of stereotypical pirates, led by a Blackbeard clone, are shown boarding a cruise ship at the marina. One of the pirates is chasing a woman in a bikini, while another is pursuing ''men wearing nothing but swim trunks''!
* [[The Artifact]]: Odlaw was invented for the American animated adaptation and was given a [[Sdrawkcab Name]] as Waldo's opposite. This name is still kept when the cartoon was redubbed back into British English for a British audience and 'Waldo' is Wally again, so the reference is lost. Admittedly 'Yllaw' would be unpronounceable unless you're Welsh.
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* [[Celebrity Paradox]]: Similarly, Tarzan, Paul Bunyan, and Count Dracula make cameo appearances in the "realistic" first book.
* [[Clothes Make the Legend]]: That red and white striped shirt, hat and glasses.
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* [[Disaster Dominoes]]
* [[Distaff Counterpart]] (Wenda to Waldo)
* [[Dub Name Change]]: Wally is called Walter in German, Charlie in French, Willy in Norwegian, Holger
* [[Early Installment Weirdness]]: The first book is entirely mundane contemporary scenes. Quite the contrast to its successors, which use time travel historical settings, completely fantastic settings, and some combination of the two respectively.
** The scenes also have less people in them, compared to the later books. While the first book has plenty of people in the pictures, there's still a fair amount of space between them. The others are ''packed'' with people.
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* [[Wizard Beard]] (Wizard Whitebeard)
* [[You All Look Familiar]] (The Great Waldo Search)
* [[Adaptation Distillation]]: Wenda is pointedly missing from the show, except for one episode, while even the scrolls and cane made it in.
* [[Big Ball of Violence]]: In ''A Stone Age Story'', and I'm sure others.
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* [[Nightmare Fetishist]]: Wally smiles constantly while watching others get pummeled or is in danger of a pummeling himself (said eagerly: "Who's the menacing fellow who looks as if he'd like to twist me into a knot and throw me off a cliff?"), is excited to be standing in front of an angry stampede, be attacked by monsters, be tied up in chains, be taken prisoner ("Wow, Woof, didjya hear that? We're official prisoners!"), hop into a dangerous pit of doom (shaking bag and smiling: "Well, Woof, apparently I didn't bring my parachute."), and is nothing short of thrilled to be in a cave-in. ("Wow, Woof! It's a real cave-in! And we've only been here just a few minutes! (elated sigh) How lucky can you get?") Seriously, how did Woof survive being around this guy?
* [[Perpetual Smiler]]: Wally; can stray into [[Stepford Smiler]] territory at times...
* [[Secret Handshake]]: Wally's family greeting he does with his cave ancestor. Also counts as [[Mirror Match
* [[Small Annoying Creature]]: Woof; he's pretty useless. He's just there for Wally to talk to so he doesn't look crazy.
** Not sure, he chases off Odlaw from time to time.
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